Hummingbird Hawk Moth

I heard what I thought was a hummingbird in my garden, but it wasn't big enough to be one. Instead it was a hummingbird moth. They are interesting to watch as they flit around from flower to flower. However, I found it very difficult to take a sharp photo of it because of its speed. Although the following pictures are not as sharp as I would like, I thought I would put them on here because of how rare it is for us to see these in our area.

Mother Robin and her Babies

We were visiting my father in Burk's Falls a couple of weeks ago, and I was able to capture some photos of a robin feeding her young ... or maybe it was the father feeding his young. The  robin was quite curious about me taking pictures, but was not very nervous. She is used to my dad walking around, and mowing the lawn near the nest.

The nest is built under the eaves of a shed, and is sitting on top of a ladder that's hanging on the shed. I think the baby robins aren't very pretty, but it doesn't matter to the parents. They were certainly ready for food each time the robin came.

I'm glad I can add these photos to my collection of robin photos. It was interesting watching the adult birds care for their young. God cares for each of us, far more than the robin cares for its young. This is a wonderful thought.

Cedar Waxwings

Cedar Waxwings are usually shy. We see them very rarely, and when we do, it is difficult to get good photos of them. They are usually peaking at you from behind leaves, like this one, or they fly away as soon as you look like you're going their direction.

I love their song. If you go to http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/cedar_waxwing/id and scroll down their page, you can hear it for yourself.

They are a pretty bird, so it's well worth taking the time to be able to see them. 

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, 

and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. 

Are you not of more value than they?

~ Matthew 6:26

Baby Loon

Last year, in one of my blogs in September, I said that we don't see baby loons on our lake. However, this year we have. I'm wondering if we aren't seeing them when they are very little, but possibly we have seen them when they were bigger, and we didn't realize they were this year's babies. I was surprised to see one, especially with all of the flooding we had this spring. 

We were out in the boat near the end of July when we saw these two loons with their baby. They were keeping pretty close to it.

The baby loon is almost the size of the adults, but it doesn't have the colouring of the adult yet.  It was really nice to see.

I thought I'd also add a couple of pictures of one of the adults. 

This next one is looking down into the water watching for fish. We get to see them do this quite often out in front of our house.

As we watched the loons, they weren't nervous, but continued swimming around and doing some fishing. 

I'm so glad God gave us creatures like this to enjoy.

Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; 

for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting. 

~ Psalm 147:1